beat out

verb

beat out; beaten out or beat out; beating out; beats out

transitive verb

1

: to make or perform by or as if by beating

2

: to mark or accompany by beating

3

: to turn (a routine ground ball or a bunt) into a hit in baseball by fast running to first base

Examples of beat out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Jasmin Wise, a first-time candidate, beat out incumbent James Watkins by 14 votes according to unofficial results. —Rachel Royster may 5, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 May 2026

Daniel Kraus’s one-sentence novel Angel Down won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, beating out Torrey Peters’s short-story collection Stag Dance and Katie Kitamura’s dual narrative Audition. —Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 4 May 2026

At Sephora at Kohl’s, MAC shot to the number-one position in lips, beating out Fenty Beauty and Summer Fridays, which ranked number two and three in the category, respectively. —Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 4 May 2026

Graham was one of three finalists for the Bulls position, according to ESPN, beating out Minnesota Timberwolves GM Matt Lloyd — a former Bulls employee who was seen as the front-runner — and Detroit Pistons senior vice president Dennis Lindsey. —Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1588, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for beat out

• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout